Greetings, Cinematic Fanatics! Allow us the pleasure of ushering you through both the realm of the digital and theanalogue, the melding of the automated and carbon, flesh and blood created, theskylines of the Pearl River Delta as it splashes into Hong Kong City andweaponized, mechanized motherboards of circuitry, next to the buff AdonisHathaway, Chen Lien looks itty bitty, the legit shiz hacker speak iswell-researched and witty, this slick flick transports us all over the world,from the windy city to the angel laden city to Hong Kong City, the streets of Malaysia and Jakarta (asexotic as their inhabitants you pity;) this is a gorgeously shot productionwith the female lead as pretty as the primal violence gritty, and, as Violawill unceremoniously remind Chen, "liaise" in "liaison group" implies mutuality. This unseen, yet wholly pervasive andpersuasive world in Blackhat presents us with both a real mammalian rodent anda weaponized software RAT, a hybrid of the smooth, practiced strokes of thekeyboard and kinetic, visceral violence at the end of a sharpened screw-drivingtool or well-aimed gat, our intrepid hacker sports attire from both a GQcatalogue and a suit marked HAZMAT, though curt on conversational chat, Nick, when holdingsharpened shanks in place by rubber bands, and torso wrapped in tapedmagazines, he's set for fstars combat, Sadak brushed Nick and Lien off asthough a pesky, innocuous gnat, little did his Blackhatting a** know he'smessing with a copycat blackhat and a hellcat, and as Hathaway delivers suchprimordially satisfying mortal combat, so, too, dowe deliver the remote accessed payload of this SFP, an entertaining,slick/flick-explaining series, a desirable diversion from the main vein ofChemohawk Sessions. For your 32nd episode, we deliciously-- almostdeliriously, dissect one of our most prized, techno savvy films, one of ourmost lauded Mann films, one of our most mutually personalized andmemorable flicks in the last 10 years; I have reveled in this film since myfirst solo viewing. I overlook the flicks piddly andunpardonable pedant found faults; it is these captious critics who set theirdefault setting to critical assault, taking a competently made, expertly shotflick that is worth its salt and shizzing all over it till it whiplash crashesto a halt. I confess to you, Cinematic Fanatics, this Mann directed flick was financially woeful, both locally and worldwide, and its criticalconsideration only, at times, more hopeful.
Enter, with us, you cinematic fanatics, into the realm of film's fantasy as we unwind the grind of reality…We offer you: Pick 32: Slick Flick Pick: Ghostman in the Machine-- Where High-Tech Thrills Greet Low-TechKills (Blackhat, 2015). Today, we'll discuss--the gentle and gratuitously loud sounds ofthe keyboard's keystrokes, the shocking, albeit eerily reveal that the mainprotagonist wrote this weaponized code at MIT, as a joke, when theunseen, Blackhat douche is finally uncloaked, he proves to be one fat,unsightly, Hawaiian shirt wearing bloke, when not shirtless or in a Hazmatsuit, Hathaway's suits are, no doubt, bespoke, though his clearance, passportsand credentials America revoked, he remained unprovoked, but when he lost hisole college roomie broski, Chinese kinfolk, his feral and ferocious rage wasinvoked so he screwdriver stabbed his way through a torch lit, Day of Silencefestival until all who wronged him croaked.
P.S. (Procrastinated Statement) *Intro/outro song, Soulicious, courtesy of the artist, Dyalla.
F.C.F.U. Elizabeth Rodriguez was born to Puerto Rican parents and raised in New York City. (Bada* in Miami Vice film)
F.C.F.U. * Misandry is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against men
F.C.F.U. *The Marine method of teaching the basics of proper shooting starts with the acronym BRASS (B=Breath, R=Relax, A=Aim, S=Stop, S=Squeeze).